Livable Cities
From the Penn Institute for Urban Research website:
A virtual discussion featuring experts from across the University to celebrate and expand upon the book Livable Cities, by Mark Alan Hughes.
About this event
Join Penn IUR for a virtual discussion featuring experts from across the University to celebrate and expand upon the new audible book by Penn IUR Faculty Fellow Mark Alan Hughes, Livable Cities. Through ten chapters, Livable Cities explores why we seek out cities and how they create the conditions that allow us to meet our fundamental needs as individuals and as a human community. The book also examines some of the most pressing issues cities face today, including racial inequality, pandemics, and climate change.
The event will feature an introduction by Penn IUR Co-Director Eugenie Birch and book author Mark Alan Hughes, Professor of Practice, Department of City and Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design and Faculty Director, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. Following the introduction, each chapter will be briefly discussed by a pair of University of Pennsylvania faculty members. The speaker list is as follows:
Chapter 1: The Livability of Cities
• Michael Weisberg, Professor and Chair of Philosophy, School of Arts and Sciences; Senior Faculty Fellow and Director of Post Graduate Programs at Perry World House
• Akira Drake Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, City & Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design
Chapter 2: Building Refuge in Cities
• Randy Mason, Professor, Historic Preservation and City & Regional Planning; Faculty Director, Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites, Weitzman School of Design
• David Grazian, Professor, Sociology and Communication; Faculty Director, Urban Studies Program, School of Arts and Sciences
Chapter 3: Markets at the Crossroads
• Gilles Duranton, Dean's Chair in Real Estate Professor, The Wharton School
• Erick Guerra, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, City & Regional Planning; Director, Cm2 University Transportation Center, Weitzman School of Design
Chapter 4: Making Meaning in Livable Cities
• John Dilulio, Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society, School of Arts and Sciences
• Ken Lum, Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professor, Chair of Fine Arts, Weitzman School of Design
Chapter 5: Freedom the Key to the Cities
• Michael Delli Carpini, Oscar H. Gandy Professor of Communication & Democracy, Annenberg School for Communication
• Mia Bay, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair in American History, School of Arts and Sciences (invited)
Chapter 6: Livable Cities are Edible Cites
• Domenic Vitiello, Associate Professor, City & Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design
• Karen Glanz, George A. Weiss University Professor, Professor, Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Nursing; Director, UPenn Prevention Research Center
Chapter 7: The Wisdom of Cities
• Alison Lassiter, Assistant Professor, City & Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design
• Bethany Wiggin, Associate Professor of German; Founding Director, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, School of Arts and Sciences
Chapter 8: Waste Not, Walk Not
• Jennifer Pinto-Martin, Viola MacInnes/Independence Professor of Nursing; Professor of Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine; Executive Director, Center for Public Health Initiatives
• David Barnes, Associate Professor, History and Sociology of Science, School of Arts and Sciences
Chapter 9: Paradise Lost and Found
• Karen M'Closkey, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture, Weitzman School of Design
• Simon Richter, Class of 1942 Endowed Term Professor of German; Department Chair, Germanic Languages and Literatures, School of Arts and Sciences
Chapter 10: The Survival of Livability
• Penn IUR Co-Director Eugenie Birch, Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education, City & Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design
• Francesca Ammon, Associate Professor, City & Regional Planning and Historic Preservation, Weitzman School of Design
Following the chapter discussions, Penn IUR Co-Director Susan Wachter will moderate a Q&A session among the speakers and field questions from the audience.